{"id":754455,"date":"2026-02-15T19:27:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T19:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/754455\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T19:27:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T19:27:24","slug":"cleveland-browns-between-a-rock-and-a-hard-place-at-qb-in-2026-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/754455\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleveland Browns between a rock and a hard place at QB in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Watson is going to be on the roster in 2026. The Browns want a veteran QB. Monken is insisting everyone gets a fresh start with him, so he\u2019ll look at Watson. That said, keep in mind Watson is coming off two Achilles surgeries, a major shoulder operation on his throwing arm and he also had ACL knee surgery in 2017.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">It\u2019s one thing to look good throwing the ball in practice. It\u2019s another to thrive in a game where people are trying to tackle you.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">The party line is Watson was a three-time Pro Bowl quarterback. That\u2019s true. But the last time he had a good year was 2020. That\u2019s five years ago. A lot has happened in Watson\u2019s life since then.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">I don\u2019t buy the argument that the offense of coach Kevin Stefanski was the main reason Watson failed. The injuries were a factor. He also was under a lot of stress given all the circumstances of him coming to Cleveland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watson is going to be on the roster in 2026. The Browns want a veteran QB. Monken is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2054],"tags":[86,85,54,1864,2337,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-754455","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cleveland-browns","8":"tag-browns","9":"tag-cleveland","10":"tag-cleveland-browns","11":"tag-cleveland-browns-news","12":"tag-clevelandbrowns","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116076298045243806","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=754455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}